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Monday, March 12, 2018

Papercut Scenes with Watercolor Illustration by Mar Cerdà

Here's something fun to get your week off to a pleasant start... miniature container scenes created with imagination and skillful precision by Mar Cerdà, a paper artist and illustrator in Barcelona. Her Instagram feed (@marillustrations) is an absolute delight as she shares photos of her work in progress and provides narrative about what has prompted each one.

You might recall Mar's detailed miniature dioramas of Wes Anderson film sets that whipped around the net about two years ago. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I'll send you over to read this nice interview on We Heart where you'll learn what makes Mar tick.

In short though, I asked her to tell us a bit about the work she creates and this was her reply:

Perhaps I could explain you that I didn't start by studying
illustration but cinema, specializing in scenography, that's why I have
this fascination with spaces. And one day I had the chance to illustrate
a children's book for a teacher of cinema and there is where everything
started!

I didn't know anything about illustration, that's why I
started working with paper cut and creating little space dioramas where
to put the characters of the stories. After publishing six books I went to
illustration school, so it was a little bit backwards...hehe

What I enjoy most about creating little paper worlds is the freedom, the endless possibilities it has and the little tools you need for it.

Perhaps my favorite step is when I start cutting the drawing, this is
the first step to 3D and I love it.

This is a completed view of a miniature room Mar created for @ad_germany that was composed entirely of paper hand painted with watercolor. Take a tour of the room that was inspired by architect Henry van der Velde complete with a wallpaper design by Thorne Prikker. And be mesmerized as she draws the pattern!

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